"Found in the pocket of a German Officer who shot himself moments before the Allies stormed the abandoned house he had
been holed up in - he had previously ordered the dozen or so men left under his command to surrender to the Allies.
Despite concerted efforts by the English and American forces to uncover it, the location of this gun and it's bunker were
never discovered. It was assumed that the Nazis had either dismantled it, or destroyed it in the final days of the war.
Ausbrecht turned out to be a code word, not a place".
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